Obit of Shiplett Sr., James Alfred Roy - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 16 Oct 2005 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Shiplett Rawlins Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/1298 James Alfred Roy Shiplett, Sr. Services for James Alfred Roy Shiplett, Sr., 88, Davis were held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 2 at Hale's Memorial Chapel in Davis with Freddie Shiplett, Sr., his son and Roy Shiplett, a grandson, officiating. Interment was at 4:00 p.m. in Sunset Memorial Garden, Stillwater with Hale's Fox Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Born August 14, 1916 to Lee Roy and Eula (Rawlins) Shiplett in Tyrone, he died Friday, July 29 at Arbuckle Memorial Hospital. He was employed at Stillwater Milling Co. in Stillwater for 36 years before retiring. He married Airah M. Perrin on June 30, 1938 in Enid. She preceded him in death on December 4, 2001. Also preceding him in death were his parents; two sons, James Alfred Roy Shiplett, Jr. and Sidney Allen Shiplett; two sisters, Gladys Shriver and Maurine McKittrick. Survivors include one daughter, Eula Rose Davis, Stillwater; three sons, Freddie Shiplett, Sr. and wife, Hazel, Perry, Norman Shiplett and wife, Judy, Davis and Paul Dean Shiplett and wife, Darlene, Glencoe; two sisters, Louise Havill, Springfield, Colo. and Dollie Joyce Jones, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 22 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Mr. Shiplett's grandsons served as pallbearers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm